Crossword 623

A Prize of len pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 19 September. Entries to: Crossword 623, The Spec- tator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Name. ACROSS 11 Wild shots around bird make the difference (9) 13 39 army manoeuvres by Scot with one adductor muscle (11) 18 Tests are sold out (7) 19 Two dailies' red echinoderm (7, hyphened) 23 Casts, we hear, into spasms (6) 24 Green curls make Spenser's grid (5) 27 I'm a caution, I may appear in a necklace (5) 29 Snippet of wood played by batsman (6) 31 Spenser's rare information about article that will do (6) 34 Very great (7) 35 38 in agave-fibre suite (7) 38 See 35 (3) 42 Society relaxed, having no centre (9) 43 Playing well, a Conservative is instructive (11) DOWN I Stop! Do not settle around and do not let go (11, three words) 2 Beane rush (5) 5 Archaeological period showed one organ out East (7, two words) 6 Chronicles are non-U year-books (6) 7 Overlarge heartless elk to undergo diffusion (6) 8 Approached advancing north- wards, but in reverse (7, two words) 9 It's worn in Amritsar, India (4) 10 Spoke out — the Russian was permitted, we're told (9, two words) 15 Indian's appeal to wise man (5) 16 One Gypsy woman coming in very drunk was firmly put in place (II) 17 Its American version is not Evolutionism (I I) 20 les unclued here, maybe there, below (9, two words) 21 A brief work-up in the grass (3) 25 Breakout of cooler, uptight (5) 26 Small amphibian — note little foot (3) 28 Rum, Nero masquerading as penitent (7) 32 A check-up about railway com- pound (6) 36 Trunk from roots (5) 37 Mad little engine (4)